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Religion Dispatches
Thirty-six years ago, as Americans prepared to celebrate Thanksgiving, a Catholic, a Protestant, and a Jew went to Washington, D.C. There, alongside President Jimmy Carter, they appealed to the…
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In the new documentary film The Armor of Light, gun control activist Lucia McBath goes to meet the Rev. Rob Schenck at the Capitol Hill townhouse that serves as the offices of Schenck’s conservative…
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Two polls out this week show retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson surging ahead of Donald Trump among likely Iowa Republican caucus-goers. A Quinnipiac University poll out yesterday has Carson leading…
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America has reached peak papal madness. Twitter has created emojis to go along with hashtags like PopeinUs, PopeinDC, PopeinNY, and PopeinPhilly. While the Pope’s picture and likeness has been…
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According to author Kevin Kruse, the idea that America is a “Christian nation” was invented only recently, forged by an alliance between industrialists and conservative clergy who preached the…
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Dayspring Bible College and Seminary in suburban Chicago has filed a lawsuit against the Illinois Board of Higher Education challenging its accreditation law, which presently allows such Bible schools…
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Almost half of the world’s countries have laws or policies that penalize blasphemy, apostasy, contempt of religion, or religious “hate speech.”
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Senator addresses Mormon question. Sort of.
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